Viera and Hrothgar clans detailed on official site

[Duskane]

viera will have sun seeker and moon keeper variety in skin
while Hrothgar will have Raen and Xaela with a fur texture + spots

my guess

[Aryalandi]

They really could have gone a couple of shades darker for their "darker skinned tribe" preview, though I'm not surprised that they made the choices they did the main one on display is more pleasantly tan than she is dark, mind you she's quite lovely and I'll probably end up with at least one viera that is designed similarly, and another with more traditional ffxii viera colors.

For hrothgar though.. >.> what should hroth-cules look like i wonder... do we go kevin sorbo or the rock..

[Lacan]

EDIT: not mine, I found it on reddit

[Gula]

EDIT: not mine, I found it on reddit

This is my headcanon nothing will take it away from me.

[Bright-Flower]

I found it funny they tried to emphasize the Rava camouflaging themselves because of the skin. Maybe the game will prove me wrong but that Rava viera they showed off doesn't look like she'd be hard to spot in a jungle. Was also kind of funny they mentioned the skin differences but it really just looks like the Rava viera got a nice tan at the beach. I'm sure both clans will have more skin options but it kind of amused me.

[Hazmick]

So Hrothgar females do exist, they're just rare. :v How convenient.

just like Duskwight Elezen and male Miqo'te...

[Reinha]

I hope we can make a black panther looking Hrothgar!

[MikkoAkure]

just like Duskwight Elezen and male Miqo'te...

Ignoring the (admittedly lame) real life reason we can’t play male viera and female hrothgar, it still makes sense by a lore standpoint why we can play male miqo and duskwights. A race/gender being rare and also from a continent or a part of a continent we have no access to is completely different from a race/gender that is rare and also has a history of roaming around on our home continent where there is also a culture of adventuring.

[Beki_Bayaqad]

They really could have gone a couple of shades darker for their "darker skinned tribe" preview, though I'm not surprised that they made the choices they did the main one on display is more pleasantly tan than she is dark, mind you she's quite lovely and I'll probably end up with at least one viera that is designed similarly, and another with more traditional ffxii viera colors.

For hrothgar though.. >.> what should hroth-cules look like i wonder... do we go kevin sorbo or the rock..

Depends.
Helion = Rock
Lost = Sorbo
I mean the fur tones alone should sell which is which.

[Penthea]

I hope it's not going to be only just straight palette changes for the differences between the sub races. If they're only going to give us one gender of each, they could at least make the sub-races be noticeably distinct.

hailing from the distance shores of Ilsabard, the Hrothgar are a burly people of lionlike appearance-or the males are at least. Females number staggeringly few among their population, and thus are rarely so much as glimpsed by the other races

I guess the women stay home and be pregnant?